Some good news after all. Those Gander Mountain stores that will remain open under the new owner (such as Onalaska) will retain its employees, despite already sending out layoff notices. The stores will be renamed to Gander Outdoors and will continue work as usual. At least some people will get out of this mess with still having a job.
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